LEHIGH TWP., NORTHAMPTON CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that followed a domestic incident Wednesday afternoon in Lehigh Township.<\/p>\n
According to state police, officers with the Lehigh Township Police Department were dispatched to the 4100 block of Heritage Lane around 3:51 p.m. for a reported domestic dispute involving a 49-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman.<\/p>\n
State police said a confrontation occurred after officers entered the home. During the encounter, police deployed a Taser before an officer shot the 49-year-old man.<\/p>\n
The man was transported by Northampton Regional EMS to a local hospital. His condition has not been released.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania State Police Troop M Major Case Team is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n
Assisting agencies include the Northampton County District Attorney’s Office, the Troop M Forensic Services Unit, the Walnutport Borough Police Department, the Moore Township Police Department, the Slatington Borough Police Department and the Lehigh Township Police Department.<\/p>\n
State police have not released the identities of those involved, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH TWP., NORTHAMPTON CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that followed a domestic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-255546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}